Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a thing, it's a quality, and minds aren't all the same value; they're better or worse, and the better they are, the more they mean.

There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a part of the will to survive—yet, also, it has made it possible for us to engage in one weakening war after another. But it is a necessary part of our mechanism that we should be able to cry only for a time over even an ocean of spilt milk—the spectacular must soon become the commonplace if life is to be supportable.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.